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(Company F) Putnam Vols (Putnam County)
Malvern Hill, Virginia (7/1/62)
If you leave the Town of Farmville, Virginia that is in Prince Edward County on Highway 45
and go north across the Appomattox River into Cumberland County for about one half mile and turn right onto North Osborn Road it will take you into the Confederate Cemetery.
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Confederate Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection
LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Confederate cemetery or soldiers’ cemetery:
1937 July 20
Research made by Esther R. Meadow
Cemetery Location: .2 mile north of Farmville, Virginia on Route #43; thence
east .3 mile on Route #653. The cemetery on east side of
the road.
Cumberland County
DATE:
1861
OWNERS:
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
DESCRIPTION:
The Soldier’s Cemetery is located in Cumberland County, about one half mile from
Farmville corporate limits on the western slope and near the summit of the hill
almost directly west of the “Lithia Springs”. It is a beautiful location,
commanding a fine view of the town of Farmville, Virginia, the Valley of the
Appomattox River for several miles, the crest of the Blue Ridge in the far west,
Willis Mountain to the northwest and Leigh’s Mountain to the southwest with an
intervening landscape dotted here and there with cleared land and farm houses.
In 1867 or 1868, the grounds of the Confederate Cemetery were enclosed with a
good but plain plank fence and headboards were placed at the graves. About this
time, nearly 500 soldiers were buried at this place. Since that time, a good
many of the soldiers’ bodies have been removed by relations or friends. At the
present time, it is supposed there are 350 or 400 bodies in the cemetery.
At the time the cemetery was enclosed, a plat was made of the grounds, but that was
lost many years ago. Although a head-board was erected at each grave, at that
time, the headboards have disappeared. The plat has grown up in weeds, bushes
and trees. Not a trace of the enclosure remains.
At various places, there are half a dozen cement posts. Some of this are at the
boundary of the cemetery, two of them were put where the graves actually begin.
The two latter posts were put there for gate posts, a great many years ago, when
plans were made for again enclosing the cemetery. Some of the cement posts were
put there for corner posts.
There is one monument, which is tall and may be seen from a long distance. This
monument is near the summit of the hill, where the soldier’s bodies were
interred. This memorial has the base of cement, forming a square, resembling
two steps. At the top of the cement there is a base of rough granite, also
square, above which is the monument proper. This, also, is of granite, which is
rough on three sides and has a glazed surface on which there is the following
inscription:
FAITHFUL
UNTO DEATH
CONFEDERATE
HEROES
1861 – 1865
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
In this cemetery were interred the bodies of Confederate soldiers, who died from
wounds and diseases in the Farmville hospital during and just after the War
Between the States.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Owners: United Daughters of the Confederacy, Farmville, Virginia
Informant: Mr. Walter Wright, Farmville, Virginia
Some information was obtained from the address given by Dr. James L. White in
1897 and which was printed in the “Farmville Herald” in March, 1935.
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by: Joan Renfrow
I have no relationship or further information in
regards to this family.
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Best I can do, Sorry, hope it will help. I did not know of this cemetery until today.
Good luck,
James
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